A few weeks ago, i asked if default weapon attacks like fire strike, savagery, etc steal life from the weapon damage or the total damage in this thread.
I got various answers, saying different things. To have a solid answer, i decided to do a test with a special cheated character and share my result:
-The character have the starting weapon, to have a low base weapon damage.
-Used fire strike tree maxed, to have a lot of fire, and chaos damage.
-Maxed Hungering void to reduce my life enought to have a good difference to see how much life i leech.
-Used devotions with life leech.
-Low physique, but lot of cunning and spirit, to have good damage bonus, but low life regen.
-Reduced my constitution to 0 to not interfere with the life regen.
Here you can see the stats, average damage, life leech, and the dummy life leech res :
Here is the life before any hit (11345 hp):
Here is after hit (12962 hp , 7466 + 304 +285 dmg):
Now we will calculate the life leeched:
-7466 main dmg
-285 + 304 secondary dmg
-26% life leech
-25% dummy life leech res
(7466+285+304)0,26(1-0,25)= 1570 life leeched
Difference before and after hit: 12962-11345 = 1617
As we can see, calculated life leeched with fire strike and the difference in life are close.
The difference of 47 hp come from the life regenerated in the time to do the hit, and capture the images.
The damage can’t be only from weapon damage, as we can see the base weapon is betwen 722 - 1372 dmg ( even with 122% bonus from firestrike and 56% bonus physical wont deal all that.).
With this, i gave an answer for anyone who is curious about the topic.
Hope is gonna help.
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Attachment: Before hit.jpg
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